What teachers, schools, and families should know before a Splash pilot.
This page distinguishes what is live on the public website, what is being built for the classroom product, and what still requires validation before broad student deployment.
What Splash is—and is not.
Is Splash an unrestricted chatbot for students?
No. The product direction is a teacher-controlled, assignment-based environment with age-aware guidance, source rules, verification, and platform-level safeguards.
What is available first?
Story Studio and the AI Glass Box form the first pilot learning loop. Game, Music, and Movie Studios remain roadmap products until they are built and validated.
What is the AI Glass Box?
It is a student-facing transparency layer designed to show observable inputs, approved sources, major system stages, factual-claim support, and verification tasks.
Does the Glass Box reveal private chain-of-thought?
No. Splash does not claim to expose hidden model reasoning. The goal is operational transparency about information and system activity that can actually be recorded and explained.
How the trust model is being designed.
Can a teacher turn all safety controls off?
No. Teachers should be able to configure pedagogy and permitted tools without disabling the platform-wide safety floor.
Does Splash claim to be 100% safe?
No. No generative system should make an absolute zero-risk promise. Splash describes a defense-in-depth design, fail-closed behavior, testing, and human school oversight.
Does Splash sell student data or use behavioral advertising?
The product direction is no sale of student information, no behavioral advertising, no advertising profiles, and no unrelated commercial enrichment of student records.
Is Splash FERPA or COPPA certified?
The site does not make those certification claims. Production privacy, contractual, and school-record requirements must be reviewed against the actual deployed system and applicable law before broad student deployment.
What student information is required?
The design principle is data minimization. Student experiences should not inherently require unnecessary home addresses, phone numbers, precise locations, exact birthdays, or advertising identifiers.
How early access works.
Who is the first pilot designed for?
The initial validation focus is Grades 6–8 educators, with science, English, social studies, computer science, media literacy, and library/media among the strongest early-use contexts.
How long is the target pilot?
The current target shape is approximately four to six weeks with a small group of teachers and a defined set of student projects. Final scope should be agreed with each pilot school.
Can I buy Teacher Pro today?
Not yet. Teacher Pro pricing is shown as a planning target during the pilot stage rather than an active checkout product.
Is school pricing final?
No. School and district pricing must reflect enrollment, generation usage, support, integrations, media capabilities, and procurement requirements. Current figures are planning targets.
What students should actually learn.
Why not just teach prompting?
Prompting is only one skill. Students also need source awareness, verification, limitation awareness, privacy judgment, bias and perspective awareness, and the ability to decide when human judgment matters.
How is learning assessed?
The planned model pairs the final creative artifact with source inspection, claim verification, prompt revision, error detection, and student reflection.
Does Splash already have published efficacy results?
No. The Evidence & Evaluation page describes what should be measured. Public learning-outcome claims should follow actual pilot measurement rather than being invented in advance.